Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-06-11

South and Middle Forks. Each of these
tributary streams has number of smaller
feeders, sent down from the canyons, gorges
and valleys of the higher ranges.
In the extreme southern portion of the
county is Bear river, another mountain
stream, with network of feeders in the
higher ranges. With all these lasting and
rapid streams this county is one of the best
watered portions of the coast. In the foot
hill portion of the county there are nu-
merons clear, cool springs that burst forth
from the hillsides. There is no part of
the county in which good well water can
not be found at depths varying from ten
to forty feet. In addition to this lavish
natural water supply, there is perfect
NETWORK OF WATER DITCHEs,
Which were constructed for mining pur-
poses. These bitches start from the
streams in the high mountains, and run
along the crests OF ridges and divides at as
high elevations us can be found so as to
cover as much of the land as possible. All
of these have been constructed with 4
great expenditure Of labor and money
These ditches with their tributaries, ag-
gregate hundreds of miles, and now, since
the cessation of placer mining, the vast
volumes of water they carry is available
are now extending them from the foothills
to the plains below. 1t it believed that
these old mining bitches have a capacity
to carry water enough to irrigate all the
arabic land in Yuba county. If the future
development should demand more, it can
be easily obtained from streams that drain
these great mountain sides.
AREA OF FORESTS.
In most portions of this county, even on
the plains, there are sufficient timber
growths to furnish fuel for present and fu-
ture use. Since the American occupation,
more than forty years, the amount of tree
growths has increased by reason of protec-
ton from fires. Along the streams in the
valleys there are willow, poplar, syca-
more, soft maple, box-elder and cottonwood
growths, and on the plains live, burr, white
and black oaks. On the mountain sides
there is forest belt twenty-five miles
in width, in which there is every
kind of evergreen growths = white,
red, pitch and sugar pine, spruce, fir, hem
lock and cedar. In this great timber belt
there are some of the largest tree growths
of the coast. All through these forests
there are large steam and water mills,
which manufacture millions of feet OF
lumber for home and foreign use.
QUALITIES OF SOIL.
The soil of the delta or valley portion
OF Yuba county is very fertile. 1t is a
dark alluvium, and produces large crops OF
grain, grass, vegetables and fruit year after
year without fertilization. On the higher
plains it is a brown loan, which produces
wheat, rye, oats, barley, the native clover,
fruit and vines in large quantities and OF
the best quality. The foothills have the
'red soil, rich in alkaline and saline mat
tiers, and especially adapted to tree fruits
and grapes. 4 third of a century's farm
ing has demonstrated the fertility and
adaptability Of all these soils to all kinds
of agriculture and horticulture.
OF THE CLIMATE.
Th4 home-seeker should understand at
the outset that there are no seasons here
as in the country east Of the Sierras Our
people are mostly descendants of the North
men, who have always lived in cold
countries, with the well-marked seasons OF
spring, summer, autumn and winter, and
we still Use these terms to designate GER
| tain months of the year, but under the
climatic conditions existing in this State
they are untrue and misleading. We have
only two seasons-sprins, or the season ol
| showers, and autumn, the dry season
| Spring commences with the first showers
in October or November, and there is g
general awakening of vegetable life. The
| billSides and valleys are SOON
COVERED WITH GREEN vERDURE AM
FLOWERS,
Buds and blossoms. it's the seedtime too
OF the farmer, the same as spring is every
where around the world. All through tho
months known as autumn and winter the
I fields on those rich deltas and foothills arr
busy, bustling scenes, with plowS, harrow:
and seed-sowers. Cattle Craze on The
new vegetation, the groves are voca
with the songs of birds that remair
here the whole year or those migratory
song9ters that come here from the inhos
pitable North to revel in flowers and sun
shine. Doors and windows are opened
wide to admit the warm sunlight and the
aroma of fragrant fields, and children dis
port the day long in the open air
! These rains misunderstanding witt
sunny days till May or June. Autumn sue
eeeds to spring, and continues till the
rains come again in September or October
and Is the harvest season, and there is M
other country in the world which has sucf
an assured and safe season for harvest
From the middle of June to the last o
| September the farmer has surety of fin,
weather for haying, harvesting and haul
ing farm, orchard and vineyard products
10 market.
WHY THERE Is No WINTER HIRE.
The reason why there is no winter here
on the same latitude as that where there
is snow, ice, and sweeping blasts in all tho
country east of the Sierra Nevada range Is
apparent to any one who VIII study tn,
| matter for a moment. Climate is the
result of two great causes, Astronomical
and geographical. The first alone would
produce the same temperatures on the
same attitudes, and on the same elevations
I the world around 1t is the geographical
influences which modify temperatures
and produce the variations 1t is to thes,
that we here owe our complete immunity
from winter. There are
! TWO GREAT GEOGRAPHICAL. INFLUENCE
That operate to produce our winterleS
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